Candide is a French satire by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. Candide is characterised by its sarcastic tone as well as by its erratic, fantastical and fast-moving plot. A ...
Reading is one of my passions. I like books that make me think. Voltaire’s Candide is one of those exceptional novels that work on the reader’s sensibilities. "‘The most useful books," he wrote, "are ...
Matthew Sharpe works for Deakin, and received funding in the past from the ARC for work on the history of the idea of philosophy as a way of life. “Italy had its renaissance, Germany its reformation, ...
Voltaire’s ‘Candide’ talks to us eloquently in this era of the pandemic and wild conspiracy theories
“Italy had its renaissance, Germany its reformation, France had Voltaire”, the historian Will Durant once commented. Born François-Marie Arouet, Voltaire (1694-1778) was known in his lifetime as the ...
John Richards is an economist and a professor at Simon Fraser University focusing on social and aboriginal policy. In Voltaire's novella, Candide initially views the world with unbridled optimism: It ...
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